Furriers’ Convention Ousts Left Wing

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The Fur Workers’ Convention yesterday forestalled all possibility of peace with the Left Wing by voting to exclude all of the delegates from the suspended unions from the convention hall. This action was taken at the morning session and when the thirty Left delegates, headed by Benjamin Gold, presented themselves at the afternoon session they were denied admission. The convention had previously voted fifty-seven to seven to approve the report of the Credentials Committee that action on the Left delegates was being deferred until after the convention acts upon the annual report of the General Executive Board.

Harry Englander of Toronto, former vice-president of the International, who is one of the seven recognized Left delegates from cities other than New York, conducted the Left fight against the report of the Credentials Committee, demanding that the thirty-three delegates of the reorganized Right unions should not be permitted to vote since he, as a member of the General Board Credentials Committee of Three, had voted against their recognition and put them under question. He was howled down by the delegates.

The Left wing delegates at a meeting last night, attended by 41 members, decided to establish a permanent body with the declared object of regaining recognition in the International.